Word: anthonyism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The echoing quiet of midnight had settled in the lighted corridors and the dim rooms and wards of St. Anthony's Hospital at Effingham, Ill. Outside, the town (pop. 8,000) and its surrounding farms slept. An operator-nun sat at the hospital switchboard, waiting for emergency calls. Out...
Almost as soon as the operator gave the alarm, the old building was full of heat and choking fumes. Flames crackled in stairwells and hallways even before the 20 newborn babies in the nursery awakened and began to cry, before St. Anthony's 30 aged men & women pensioners, its...
Flaming Silhouettes. Neighbors awakened by screams and the tinkling crash of breaking windows, ran out to stare into a nightmare. St. Anthony's a plain, white-trimmed brick building, had stood in Effingham for 73 years; it was the only hospital in the county and its white-garbed Franciscan...
Ruins at Dawn. The work of claiming the living soon ended. Despite the plumes of white water which finally rose to the smoking walls, the fire roared with almost explosive fury. The roof and all the floors crashed in. Debris rumbled down. At dawn, as the pumps labored, St. Anthony...
Now, although she admires the music and the men of the Middle Ages ("They had less plumbing, but they were more alive"), Suzanne is not above strumming cowboy songs on the lute for her seven-year-old son Anthony. One of her proudest accolades: recently, when she strummed for Anthony...